Events

If you want to hear J.S.Watts reading her poetry and prose live, or attend one of her workshops, check out the events below.

2021 Readings and Events

There is not much booked this year in terms of  public readings and events because of COVID 19 and lockdown. Keep your fingers crossed and do check back from time to time in case circumstances improve.

Tues 31 Aug 7.30pm (prose)                        Interviewing the writer Annalisa Crawford on the launch of her                                         online via Zoom                                                           "poignant and action packed" novel "Small Forgotten Moments"

Thurs 7 Oct 7pm  (poetry)                            "Poems from Crow Country" - Celebrating National Poetry Day           venue to be agreed nearer time in accordance                                                                                                        with Baldock Library                                                              with COVID restrictions                                                                             CANCELLED BY LIBRARY IN RESPONSE TO STAFF SICKNESS LEVELS

2020 Readings and Events

Sun 5 Jan 2-4pm (Workshop)                     'Question Time' - Writers' Club                                            Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23        £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 2 Feb 2-4pm (Workshop)                     'Critiquing Session' - Writers' Club                                            Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23        £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 2 Feb 8pm  (Prose)                               Fiction Fix                                                                             Samm's, 29 Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1HA,
FREE 

Sat 8 Feb 2.10pm (poetry)                          Verse Aid Poem-A-Thon                                               The Society of Authors, 24 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4EH   FREE                                                https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/JSWatts

Sun 1 Mar 2-4pm (Workshop)                   'Self-Publishing with Julie Stock' - Writers' Club                   Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23        £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 1 Mar 8pm  (Prose)                               Fiction Fix                                                                                 Argo Lounge, 7 Bridge St, Peterborough, PE1 1HJ
FREE 

Tues 3 Mar 8pm (Talk, prose)                   Book Night at the Courtyard          The Courtyard, Pendrill Court, Ermine Street North, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY
FREE

Weds 8 Apr 7.30pm (Poetry)                      Sudbury Cafe Poets                                                           Quaker Meeting House, 22 Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk                                                                 CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19

Sun 3 May 2-4pm (Workshop)                  Writers' Club                                                                              Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23        £10 (£5 unwaged)                      WRITERS' CLUB IS CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Thurs 7 May 7pm (Poetry)                        Launch of #2, Fenland Poetry Journal                                                 Wisbech Castle Vaults                                                                                                      CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19
Sat 4 July tbc (Talk, poetry +)                   Details to Follow                                                                                                                                    Hertfordshire
                                                                  CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19

Sun 5 July 2-4pm (Workshop)                   "Character" - Writers' Club                                                                                        online via Zoom
Funded by donation

Sun 2 Aug 2-4pm (Workshop)                   "Point of View" - Writers' Club                                                                                   online via Zoom
£5

Sun 6 Sept 2-4pm (Workshop)                   "Marketing - a personal perspective" - Writers' Club                                               online via Zoom
£5

Sunday 11 October 4-5pm (Prose)            Fiction Fix                                                                                                                   online

FREE

Weds 16 Dec 7.30pm (Poetry)                  Fen Speak                                                                                                                    online
FREE

2019 Readings and Events 

Sun 6 Jan 2-4pm (Workshop)                     'Beginnings' - Writers' Club                                           Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23
£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sat 19 Jan 11am (Talk, poetry +)                Society of Authors Talks - My Writing Life           Croxley Green Library, Barton Way, Croxley Green, Herts WD3 3HB.
FREE

Sun 27 Jan 8pm (Poetry)                             Draper's Arms Poetry Gig                                      The Draper's Arms,  29-31 Cowgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LZ.
FREE

Thurs 31 Jan 7.30pm (Poetry)                     Spoken Word                                                                Southern Maltings, Kibes Lane, Ware, Herts., SG12 7BS
FREE                                                                     
            
Weds 6 Feb 8pm (Talk, poetry+)                 Book Night at the Courtyard          The Courtyard, Pendrill Court, Ermine Street North, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY
FREE

Thurs 21 Feb 7pm (Talk, poetry+)               Society of Authors Talks - Writing & Me     Hertford Library, Dolphin Yard, Maidenhead Street, Hertford, SG14 1DR
£3                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Sun 3 Mar 2-4pm (Workshop)                     'The Middle' - Writers' Club                                                          Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Fri 8 Mar 7.30pm (Poetry)                          Waterlight: a Journey Down the River Mel                       Melbourn Hub, 30 High St., Melbourn, Cambs., SG8 6DZ

£6

Weds 20 Mar 8pm (Poetry)                        Poetry Swaps                                Cellar Bar, Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford, Lincs., PE9 2DL
FREE

Sat 13 Apr 8pm (Poetry)                           Saturday Sound Stage at the Compasses                    The Compasses, High Street, Stansfield, Suffolk, CO10 8LN
FREE

Sun 5 May 2-4pm (Workshop)                 'Editing and On-the-day Critique' - Writers' Club                            Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sat 25 May 2pm onwards (Poetry/Prose)   Pando Festival                                                                                   Parkhall Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE28 3
(Ticketed Festival)

Sat 1 June 2.30pm approx  (Poetry)            Strawberry Fair                                         Wild Strawberries Stage, Eastern Bloco, Midsummer Common, Cambridge

FREE 

Fri 21 June 8pm (Poetry)                             Words Without Frontiers                     The Ellen Terry Suite, Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Stevenage, Herts.,
£6

Sun 7 July 2-4pm (Workshop)                      'Narrator' - Writers' Club                                                          Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 4 Aug 2-4pm (Workshop)                    'Ideas & Appropriation/Fiction from Reality" - Writers' Club      Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Thurs 5 Sept 7pm (Prose)                         Vanguard Readings @ Harlow Playhouse              Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1LS
FREE

Sun 8 Sept 7pm (Poetry)                             Sunday Night Lives                                                                The Flying Pig, 106 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LQ

FREE

Sat 19 Oct 10.30am (Talk, poetry+)          Hertfordshire Writers Talks - Writing and Me              Buntingford Library, 77 High Street, Buntingford, Herts, SG9 9AE
£2

Sun 3 Nov 2-4pm (Workshop)                    'What's in a Name?' - Writers' Club                                         Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

 

J.S.Watts reading at Stevenage Festival, June  2019 as part of Parnassus poetry (photo with thanks to Chris Ripple)

                                     

J.S.Watts reading at The 1000 Monkeys, Guildford - 4th June 2018

(Photograph by Janice Dempsey)

                                               

J.S.Watts reading at the Feminist Poetry Jamboree, "Holding The Line", Kings Cross, London - 8th April 2017

(Photograph by Cathy Pyle)                                                                           

                                                             J.S.Watts reading at the book launch for "Years Ago You Coloured Me" - 29th March 2016

                                             

J.S.Watts performing at Beast and Bards, Cambridge - 21st February 2015

(photograph by Matt Widgery)

J.S.Watts performing at Rhythms of the World, Hitchin -  2nd August 2014

                                                                   

J.S.Watts reading at Scribal Gathering, Stony Stratford - March 2013

    

      J.S.Watts reading at the Winter Into Spring event in support of Bassingbourn Book Cafe - 10th February 2012

                                  J.S.Watts reading in Royston Library as part of the 2011 Royston Arts Festival  - 30th September 2011